CVE-2016-1001 describes a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, and related SDKs across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.8 (High), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no authentication (PR:N), leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While not on the CISA KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-39609) exists, and the vulnerability received significant community and media attention, including reports of it being actively exploited as a zero-day at the time of discovery.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 20.0.0.306CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:chrome:*:* | ||
<= 20.0.0.233CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 20.0.0.260CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
t-ms14jakucb-1102.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:x14j_firmware:t-ms14jakucb-1102.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 11.2.202.569CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.